Completion of Preysal Govt School for next fiscal year

Asked when the school, which has been plagued with a number of infrastructural problems will reopen, Minister of Education Anthony Garcia told the Parliament on Wednesday that the school had experienced sewer problems in May but the problem had been resolved.

“However, it seems as though the stench has returned,” he said.

The school had been closed in May and then more recently this month due to sewer problems.

Asked by UNC MP Dr Bhoe Tewarie if the completion of the new school building adjacent to the current school building, which was under construction during the previous administration and which was “60 percent complete” could alleviate the problem, Garcia said that the new building was not budgeted for completion this year.

“As I indicated some time ago,” he said, “the Ministry of Education identified ten schools that required urgent attention.

The Preysal Government Primary was not among those ten simply because that school (building) was 40 percent complete.” The school buildings identified for completion, he said, were between 90 percent to 95 percent completed.

“We are going to look at Preysal Government Primary in the next fiscal year,” he said.